Cop injured in Zamboanga blast
By Jamie Elona
A cop was wounded following an explosion at the compound of a police station in Zamboanga Sibugay Sunday evening, police said on Monday.
A cop was wounded following an explosion at the compound of a police station in Zamboanga Sibugay Sunday evening, police said on Monday.
The frequent power outages may turn Zamboanga into a city of junk as more and more appliances are getting busted beyond repair.
Two persons were killed while a lawyer remains in critical condition following an ambush here early Saturday.
The Supreme Court has refused former Congressman Romeo Jalosjos’ bid to temporarily stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from disqualifying him from the Zamboanga mayoralty post.
Philippine Airlines’s 6 a.m. flight to Manila from this city was cancelled Saturday after birds got sucked into one of the plane’s engines.
Mayor Celso Lobregat urged police authorities Saturday to identify the motives and the people behind Thursday’s twin explosions here that injured seven persons, not six as initially reported.
Gunmen ambushed a mayor’s convoy in Mindanao, killing three police escorts and a civilian, officials said Friday. The town official was unhurt in the attack on Jolo island on Thursday, but the town’s police chief and two other officers escorting him were killed, said regional police chief Senior Supt. Antonio Freyra.
When told that members of a poor community here would get to see a real queen, 8-year-old Jenny Asurin immediately thought of a woman in a gown and wearing a crown.
Unidentified armed men on Monday abducted two more foreigners in Zamboanga Sibugay even as the authorities there were still trying to solve the December kidnapping of Australian Warren Rodwell.
Communist guerrillas on Tuesday released a policeman they had held captive for more than a month.
Armed men abducted mayor Jeffrey Lim of Salug town in Zamboanga del Norte at around 7 p.m. Monday.
A 2-meter-high stone seawall collapsed from ceaseless battering by strong waves and wind spawned by a low-pressure area (LPA) in Ayala village here on Tuesday night, killing two children and seriously injuring another.
At least eight persons were wounded in separate explosions, which occurred here, between 12:35 and 12:45 p.m. Sunday, the police said.
